Saturday, November 8, 2025

Streaming Standard: Chucky- Season 3

 A Review that I've put off for a good reason.  
I'll get to that later.

For now, know that this is the 3rd and (for now) final Season of the Show.

Will it end in a strong way?
To find out, read on...

Many things have changed since the Ending of Season 2.

Chucky is back alive just fine and is now residing in The White House as the personal doll of the President's youngest Son.

How did he get there?  Find out...in 2 full Episodes.
The President is played by Devon Sawa, marking his 4th Character on the Show.

They explained it when he was the Dad's twin Brother, but gave up in Season 2.
Why not make him be The President now?
'I won't die...for at least 4 Episodes.'
Our Heroes try to recover from the violence and insanity of the last Season.

Our Heroine's Sister is still missing, a mystery that will also not be explained until Episode 3.

They eventually discover where Chucky is, but how do they get into the White House?
They aren't construction workers who can take down the East Wing!
We'll also find out that something is wrong with Chucky's doll body....and soul.

This is going to raise the stakes.
Now he's really going to die...possibly...okay, obviously not really.
Elsewhere, Jennifer Tilly is convicted of all of the murders and sent to Death Row in Texas.

Can she escape now that she's gotten all of the voodoo items that give her power?
I can only pretend that there's drama here for so long.
Things all come to a head in the White House!

Our Heroes must not only stop Chucky, but his soul itself.

Can they do it...or does the Show end on just the most complete reset possible?
Is it clear that I'm annoyed yet?
Yeah, so I have some real issues here.

For starters, the Show gets far less dramatic when you realize that its Creator has zero interest in ever ending this Story.  
Three Films?  Not enough.  Two more Films?  Nope.  Two more Films?  Nope!!!

What is frustrating to me is that there is some real creativity involved in the Show.  On its own merits, it is not bad.

They just refuse to let Chucky ever be in real peril.  When he dies, there are a dozen Chucky Dolls.  When those are destroyed, there's another hidden one.  When that one dies, there's yet ANOTHER super-secret hidden one (and also being dead makes him somehow stronger).

Don Mancini- the rare Creator who never left his Series after 30+ years- promises to continue to the Story with yet another Film.

Will this be a finale?  I doubt it.

I was never a huge Chucky fan, but I have seen all but one of the Films (even the Reboot).  That said, a refusal to ever end things just feels like...well, I need a visual metaphor...
That will do.

A Show that I grew to like in the early days.  In spite of it killing off Characters at random, I stuck with it...and this is what I got.

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